a pic of Shelley from around 1984
Shelley was active as an actress in show-business from the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s. She appeared in a variety of films, TV movies and TV series during that period; but she carefully chose the roles she would play, especially series-wise. In 1986, she had she told Entertainment Tonight, "You don"t sign on the dotted line for five years unless it's something you really wanna do or you're very foolish."